Regex: text between first occurrence of two patterns

Question

/url?q=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(film)&sa=U&ei=iavVUKuFGsrNswbz74GQBA&ved=0CBYQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNEth5YspFPWp6CInyAfknlEvVgIfA

Answer 1

You just need to make the * operator lazy, and you do it by adding a ? after it. So it would be .*?

Lazy (or non greedy) means that will stop after the first occurrence of that match, instead of the last one.